3. PHP has some of the best documentation

PHP is one of most comprehensively documented web programming languages. There are countless libraries and third party tools to help users.

A search on YouTube for PHP tutorials pulls up 3.2 million results. On Google overall, the same search produces 3.9million.

This obviously presents an issue, with a colossal overproduction of training material, much of it now redundant.

There are a lots of outdated PHP tutorials still floating around the web. That is why it is extremely important to keep a reference for doing and learning PHP the right way.Ayman Farhat - Software and web developer

I think it’s fair to say that there is no shortage of training material although curating the mountain of literature might be a challenge.

4 PHP is installed on most web hosting servers

PHP comes free with most web hosting servers, so you don’t need to waste time installing new systems and enduring all the hassle that comes with configuring them.

While PHP is far from the best web programming language, it's the most common in terms of availability in hosting packages.
Rebecca Skinner – Full Stack Developer

Even if PHP is not your web programming language of choice, most people want an easy life and are more than prepared to put up with PHP’s rough edges for the sake of speed and efficiency.

5. PHP Is free

Since the very earliest versions, back in 1995, PHP has always been a collaborative project with no commercial underpinnings.

Rasmus Lerdorf, one of the original architects of PHP hadn’t even intended it to become a new programming language. It grew organically and like wildfire.

I don’t know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language.

Rasmus Lerdorf,

As developers added their own functions, PHP became the runaway juggernaut that it is today.

From its rather chaotic beginnings, PHP has emerged, imperfect, often inconsistent but most importantly, free.

3. PHP has some of the best documentation

PHP is one of most comprehensively documented web programming languages. There are countless libraries and third party tools to help users.

A search on YouTube for PHP tutorials pulls up 3.2 million results. On Google overall, the same search produces 3.9million.

This obviously presents an issue, with a colossal overproduction of training material, much of it now redundant.

There are a lots of outdated PHP tutorials still floating around the web. That is why it is extremely important to keep a reference for doing and learning PHP the right way.Ayman Farhat - Software and web developer

I think it’s fair to say that there is no shortage of training material although curating the mountain of literature might be a challenge.

4 PHP is installed on most web hosting servers

PHP comes free with most web hosting servers, so you don’t need to waste time installing new systems and enduring all the hassle that comes with configuring them.

While PHP is far from the best web programming language, it's the most common in terms of availability in hosting packages.
Rebecca Skinner – Full Stack Developer

Even if PHP is not your web programming language of choice, most people want an easy life and are more than prepared to put up with PHP’s rough edges for the sake of speed and efficiency.

5. PHP Is free

Since the very earliest versions, back in 1995, PHP has always been a collaborative project with no commercial underpinnings.

Rasmus Lerdorf, one of the original architects of PHP hadn’t even intended it to become a new programming language. It grew organically and like wildfire.

I don’t know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language.

Rasmus Lerdorf,

As developers added their own functions, PHP became the runaway juggernaut that it is today.

From its rather chaotic beginnings, PHP has emerged, imperfect, often inconsistent but most importantly, free.